Description

Your phone can sight read sheet music! "SnapNPlay music" is the first app that allows you to take a picture of sheet music and play it back. It is designed for the students of music. Snap a picture of sheet music and watch the notes light up in time as you hear the music played back to you. Select an instrument to watch it play the notes in time to the music. Choose between piano, recorder, guitar, violin, viola, cello, and bass. Watch the positions on the instrument light up and learn to play with ease!

For optimal results hold your camera as close as possible to the line of sheet music. Do not include clef, key signature nor time signature in snap. When holding the camera too far away, it doesn't work as well.

The demo version has limited features. You cannot save a snap, combine snaps, and you will only be able to view half the notes light up on the instruments. The piano will light up all the notes.

The workflow:Snap a picture of 3-4 phrases of sheet music. Fit the music in the rectangle and keep it steady. Select the Key and Clef. Edit the music. SnapNPlay will detect most notes and rhythms, but you will have to analyze and correct the music. Play the music. Learn the tune. Select an instrument. Save the snap. Snap the next 3-4 phrases...save it. Snap some more..save it. Then you can combine snaps that you saved and hear an entire tune played while watching the notes light up in time. Adjust the tempo or transpose the tune. Sing it, play it on your fiddle, recorder, viola, cello, bass, guitar or piano. Do you want other instruments to be included? Email the developer.

Email me when you experience difficulty. Email me when you have suggestions. Send me your snaps. I'd love to see them so I can analyze and make the app better!

Currently the SnapNPlay algorithm only tries to detect notes, their length and accidentals. It does not try to parse triplets, rests, or grace notes. It does a great job at helping you learn a tune and learning to read sheet music. Just spend a few minutes snapping and learning. After you learn the tune, you will always be able to play it!

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Freezes up Don't know if it freezes because of it only being a demo but it does. If it were ME trying to sell this app, I'd make sure the the demo worked flawlessly. That way the customer was left with no doubt about it's functionality.

Some notes cannot be detected even when snapshots are clear How can you convince us to buy the full version if it does not detect the rest of the notes?? The snapshots are pretty clear, but some notes are not detected. Will that be fixed?

Excellent! My daughter asked hoe her sheet violin music should be played. With this app I took a photo of the top line, made a couple of easy edits where marks on the paper were thought to be notes, and then it played the tune perfectly! She then remembered the rhythm and xould do the rest by herself. Very helpful app!

Freezes up Don't know if it freezes because of it only being a demo but it does. If it were ME trying to sell this app, I'd make sure the the demo worked flawlessly. That way the customer was left with no doubt about it's functionality.

Some notes cannot be detected even when snapshots are clear How can you convince us to buy the full version if it does not detect the rest of the notes?? The snapshots are pretty clear, but some notes are not detected. Will that be fixed?

Excellent! My daughter asked hoe her sheet violin music should be played. With this app I took a photo of the top line, made a couple of easy edits where marks on the paper were thought to be notes, and then it played the tune perfectly! She then remembered the rhythm and xould do the rest by herself. Very helpful app!

App is as Described I really like this app. It has video help tutorials, if you follow the directions it works really well. Note recognition is better than smartscore. It can work with different types of music and has an edit function. I was so happy with this app that I upgraded to pro within 5 minutes.

Doesn't work Installed on my Asus Infinity 700 Android tablet, w/Jelly Bean 4.1.1. It only allows a small section of a sheet of music to be snapped, and then it attempts to play just about any symbol on the staff as if it were a note. The tempo is messed up. It doesn't seem to be able to tell the difference between a quarter note, half note, etc. nor recognize any rests. Useless as it is now.

Cool Concept, Needs Work This app is an awesome idea, and I give props to the devs for ambition and creativity. However it simply is not usable for any practical purpose. It can't read triplets, or dotted quarter notes. It misreads any marks on the page as notes, including the cleff, rests, bar numbers and lyrics.

Kinda Works... ...but only sorta kinda. This is a great idea and I will stick with the free version until it is more reliable. Once you teach it to rest, understand staccato, and possibly dual staffs for piano music, I will absolutely buy the full version even if there is no difference between free and full. Keep at it!

Getting there Great concept, but needs work. Read poetry much everything it possibly could as a note (clef, rest, musical notations, even part if a bar at one point) which lead to some weird effects. That said, I can see the potential. And it works be great if you could tie together several shots to play and entire piece.

I love it! This is a brilliant idea! It's still a little rough around the edges but it definitely has potential. I suggest you find a way to take more than one picture and then be able to play all notes at once. Another future option could be to have more than just the piano like a guitar or drums.

Excellent stuff It's a great start, somewhat hampered by narrow angle lenses on smartphone cameras but as the development continues I see lots of promise. I'll buy it after my grade 1. Keep up the top work dev!

Great app hopefully more to come This is a good looking app and very easy to use, which is important for non technical users such as myself. The videos are a great help. I look forward to seeing future updates from this publisher and I am downloading the paid version as we speak. I just used it to play Gotye "Somebody that I used to know" and it worked awesome

Work in progress It's good overall just needs to work on picking up notes a little better. Took snapshots of different sheets and sometimes it worked great while other times when the line had a lot of notes, the app skipped some notes.